The announcement of Citrix’s acquisition of XenSource along with the latest product release was very well received by the industry. Check out the buzz below or learn more about the XenSource acquisition announcement in the Citrix Press Release.

Citrix Acquires XenSource
Citrix announced on August 15, 2007, that it was entering the adjacent server and desktop virtualization markets through a definitive agreement to purchase XenSource. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) believes that this move will extend Citrix’s broader Application Delivery strategy, establish Citrix as having the most comprehensive virtualization offer¬ings in the industry, and further its claim to being the leader in virtualization technology.
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Citrix Acquires XenSource
IDC analyzes the impact of Citrix’s intent to acquire XenSource and the impact the deal will have on the virtualization market, as well as the impact and potential opportunities this creates for the vendors competing within this space. IDC notes a strong synergy between the two companies stating, “We think that the acquisition of virtual machine software technology rolls into Citrix’s product portfolio well, particularly in terms of Citrix’s new application delivery story. Virtual machine software is a key component of the future application delivery environment.”
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InformationWeek Praises XenSource Deal as Source of “Credentials” for Citrix in Virtualization Market
In a report on Citrix’s agreement to acquire XenSource, Information Week called the virtualization market “red hot” and indicated the deal would give Citrix “stronger virtualization software credentials for new products that manage user desktops as virtual machines instead of physical PCs.” The article also spotlighted the IT industry’s current excitement over virtualization solutions, as exemplified by the run-up in share value for VMware, a server virtualization solution provider, during its IPO. Citrix CEO Mark Templeton was quoted about the huge untapped potential in the virtualization market.
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Associated Press Reports Citrix Anticipates XenSource to Generate $50 Million in Sales in 2008
Citrix’s agreement to purchase XenSource, a start-up company offering virtualization technology, headlined this article on the growth of the virtualization market. Customers want the technology, which “helps computers harness more of their unused processing power and unleashes applications from a single machine in a data center.” In fact, as stated by Citrix senior VP David Jones, many Citrix customers were “clamoring” for virtualization products. The article also covered the recent and highly successful VMware IPO, described as a much-larger rival of XenSource.
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According to InfoWorld, Citrix’s Acquisition of XenSource Will Strengthen Relationship with Microsoft
InfoWorld covered Citrix’s agreement to acquire XenSource, a three-year-old company that “provides commercial and open-source flavors of its virtualization technologies.” The deal, expected to close in Q4, will allow Citrix to “take a significant share of the overall virtualization market by 2011,” according to CEO Mark Templeton. The article pointed out XenSource’s close ties with Microsoft, also a Citrix strategic partner. “XenSource remains committed to ensuring interoperability between its own virtualization products and Microsoft’s virtualization hypervisor, currently code-named ‘Viridian.’”
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XenSource Annouces XenEnterprise V4
A quick review of this announcement makes it appear that XenSource has analyzed what major enterprises have requested in their RFPs and RFQs and done its best to exceed customer requirements in every area. The company has pushed the state of the art forward and appears to be daring VMware and Microsoft to match what they’ve done.
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Bake-off: 4 Virtualization Suites (In One Review!)
CRN Test Center engineers evaluated server virtualization and management products from SWsoft, Virtual Iron Software, VMware and XenSource. See the results.
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XenSource takes on VMware with new release
XenEnterprise v4 can host up to eight virtual servers on a physical server and features group provisioning and Symantec’s Veritas Storage Foundation data backup.
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Xen Steps Up to the Plate
There’s nothing like a major platform upgrade to liven things up in the dog days of summer. This week sees the release of XenEnterprise v4...Not only does v4 bring in a 64-bit hypervisor, but a range of new tools providing things like server resource pooling, centralized management, built-in connectivity to NAS, SAN and iSCSI environments, and a new set of open APIs for leading scripting languages.
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